Rimu@piefed.social to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoLemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your saygithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square853fedilinkarrow-up1828arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1809arrow-down1external-linkLemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your saygithub.comRimu@piefed.social to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square853fedilinkfile-text
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoYou are exactly right - the underlying protocol (ActivityPub) has no concept of private votes. Making them private would only hide them in Lemmy’s UI, but still make them accessible to other users using other apps.
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoLooks like PieFed is experimenting with a potential workaround.
You are exactly right - the underlying protocol (ActivityPub) has no concept of private votes. Making them private would only hide them in Lemmy’s UI, but still make them accessible to other users using other apps.
Looks like PieFed is experimenting with a potential workaround.